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A protester holds up a sign reading “Protect Our Students” during a university-wide walkout hosted by Students for Justice in Palestine at Marsh Plaza Friday. The protest featured faculty and student speakers from Boston University and surrounding universities and a march down Commonwealth Avenue. ZACH SCHWARTZ/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

SJP holds ‘Liberation Week’ faculty, student walkout at Marsh Plaza

Emma Clement March 30, 2025
Boston University Students for Justice in Palestine hosted a walkout Friday at Marsh Plaza featuring faculty and staff who support justice in Palestine to cap off its “Liberation Week” demonstrations.
Emma Clement | Graphics Editor, Josephine Kalbfleisch | DFP Photographer, Lauren Albano | Campus Co-Editor

Musk Foundation donations to BU rocketry club launch debate

Lauren Albano February 28, 2025
Donations made by the Musk Foundation to a BU rocketry team uncovered by The Daily Free Press are igniting debates over private donorship and revealing intra-University tensions over the funding it receives.
U.S. Department of Education website. Boston University students and faculty are split over the impacts the University community may face if an executive order to dismantle the United States Department of Education is passed. SARAH CRUZ/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

BU community assesses impact of pending Trump order to abolish Education Department

Lauren Albano February 13, 2025
Boston University students and faculty are split over impacts the University community may face if an executive order to dismantle the United States Department of Education is passed.
President Melissa Gilliam gives her inaugural address. KATE KOTLYAR/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Melissa Gilliam inaugurated as BU’s 11th president, protestors at ceremony

Crystal Yormick September 27, 2024
Melissa Gilliam has officially been inaugurated as Boston University's 11th President.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu divests funds away from fossil fuels

Mayor Wu signs ordinance to divest fossils fuels in Boston

Emilia Wisniewski December 2, 2021
Mayor Michelle Wu divested City funds away from fossil fuel and other industries in an ordinance.
A student puts an empty water bottle into a recycling receptacle in front of the George Sherman Union

Green Campus tour boasts University’s sustainability initiatives

Sophie Nye October 26, 2021
BU's Green Campus Tour allowed parents and students to learn about what the University is doing to lead the transition to a carbon-free city and a more sustainable, zero-waste future on campus.
divestBU rally

BU divests from fossil fuels, activists react

Claire Law September 30, 2021
BU divests from fossil fuels, which is "a very small fraction of our endowment," President Brown wrote in an email to all students.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: MassMutual donation embodies BU’s complicated relationship to funding

Editors September 7, 2021
What does it mean when our education benefits from bad corporations that have done bad things?
Thousands of Boston area residents amassed in City Hall Plaza on Friday to take part in the Massachusetts Climate Strike to protest climate change. This event was one climate strike of hundreds happening globally in a youth-led movement inspired by Greta Thunberg. ANH NGUYEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Thousands protest climate change in Boston as part of global climate strike

Daily Free Press Staff September 21, 2019
The protesters included many students who skipped classes to rally in front of Boston City Hall against climate change.
New student group BU Students Against Mass Incarceration launched this month with the goal of teaching the student body about BU’s participation in the prison system. COURTESY OF WIKIPEDIA

New student organization calls for BU to divest from private prison system

Sofia Saric April 26, 2019
Boston University Students Against Mass Incarceration, a new student-run private prison divestment campaign, launched this month with the goal of educating the student body about BU’s participation in the prison industrial complex.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: An open letter to President Brown, in response his rejection of Divest BU’s petition demands

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: An open letter to President Brown, in response his rejection of Divest BU’s petition demands

Editors February 15, 2017

Letters to the Editor do not reflect the editorial opinion of The Daily Free Press. They are solely the opinion of the author. Dear President Brown, Today marks the 14th day we are requesting a...

DivestBU held a rally at Marsh Plaza Tuesday with the goal of encouraging Boston University to divest from fossil fuels. PHOTO BY MADISON GOLDMAN/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

OP-ED: Divestment will only occur if students demand it

Editors September 13, 2016

Op-Eds do not reflect the editorial opinion of The Daily Free Press. They are solely the opinion of the author. Change starts from the bottom. Those at the top have the responsibility to make certain...

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